[New York, NY]
Russian Poetry: Futurism and Silver Age in English Translation
March 11, 2015, 6:00 pm
at Cornelia Street Café
Hosted by Andrey Gritsman, with readings by:
David Lehman, translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky and new original poems
Ilya Bernstein, new book of translations of Osip Mandelstam
Larissa Shmailo, new program:
Readings of poems inspired by Victory over the Sun, The First Futurist Opera by Aleksei Kruchenych translated by Larissa Shmailo by
Alex Cigale
Elizabeth Hodges
Andrey Gritsman
Irina Mashinski
Misha Semenov.
A staged reading of scenes from Shmailo's translation of Victory over the Sun (Cervena Barva Press).
During both parts:
Original music composed by Finnish composer Jukka-Pekka Kervinen based on Mikhail Matiushin's partially lost score for the original 1913 production.
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